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You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels like ... It feels great! It is really a very exciting time and I am enjoying the ride. -- Lionel Richie
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Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get. -- Lionel Richie
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The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.' -- Lionel Richie
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I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of me, what we were going to do to make it different, unique. -- Lionel Richie
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Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers. -- Lionel Richie
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I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day. -- Lionel Richie
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So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing. -- Lionel Richie
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No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love. -- Lionel Richie
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Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does! -- Lionel Richie
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Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer. -- Lionel Richie
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I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing. -- Lionel Richie
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My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make -- Lionel Richie
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Country is bringing in a little rock element ... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it. -- Lionel Richie
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I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people. -- Lionel Richie
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Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it. -- Lionel Richie
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Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life. -- Lionel Richie
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The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway. -- Lionel Richie
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I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens ... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was. -- Lionel Richie
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I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion ... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult. -- Lionel Richie
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Soul is a feeling, not a color, -- Lionel Richie
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Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists. -- Lionel Richie
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I had a dream. I had an awesome dream. -- Lionel Richie
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People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music. -- Lionel Richie
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Simplicity is the key to what I do. -- Lionel Richie
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When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn. -- Lionel Richie
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It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from. -- Lionel Richie
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I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day. -- Lionel Richie
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People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not. -- Lionel Richie
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My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry. -- Lionel Richie
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Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me. -- Lionel Richie
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All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes. -- Lionel Richie
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Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises. -- Lionel Richie
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Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there. -- Lionel Richie
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Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough. -- Lionel Richie
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I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home. -- Lionel Richie
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'Let the music play on' would be my legacy. -- Lionel Richie
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I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville. -- Lionel Richie
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When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio. -- Lionel Richie
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I am a country boy and proud of it. -- Lionel Richie
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By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country. -- Lionel Richie
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I'm easy like Sunday morning. -- Lionel Richie
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In my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times. -- Lionel Richie
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When I came up with the idea for 'Tuskegee,' I didn't want to be confined by boundaries of age, genre or demographics. I am thrilled with how well this album has been received by people from all walks of life. It is truly living up to the vision we had when we created it. -- Lionel Richie
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It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music. -- Lionel Richie
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I don't think I'm going to be priest material. -- Lionel Richie
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I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not. -- Lionel Richie
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I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box. -- Lionel Richie
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Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success. -- Lionel Richie